There's a reverse problem too with complaining about karma farming eroding the SNR. I care about learning interesting things and couldn't care less about my kar

There's a reverse problem too with complaining about karma farming eroding the SNR. I care about learning interesting things and couldn't care less about my karma on a website. I've only ever submitted two articles, and those were only after I read something that I found profoundly interesting that had just been posted (I read them right after getting an email alert that they were posted). For both, I also took the time to search HN to make sure they hadn't been submitted yet, before I hit the button. But the second one still drew complaints of being a duplicate based on prior submissions of a related previous Techchrunch post that hadn't shown up in my search and that I'd never noticed despite hitting HN several times a day, because they hadn't been upvoted at all and had quickly plummeted off the first few pages. I hope a solution can be found that cuts down on both redundant submissions and occupying comment space with annoying complaints about redundant submissions (and that obviates the need for annoying complaints about the annoying complaints). I'd suggest trying just eliminating awarding karma to users, at least for submissions - just use the submissions' points for the ordering on the page. It takes way more effort to write a valuable comment than to hit submit for a link, so let comments become the sole determinant of users' karma. I think users would still submit pages they find particularly interesting for HN out of desire to share interesting things.